Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

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The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, established in 1991, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize awarded to authors' debut books of fiction. It is named for the Los Angeles Times' critic Art Seidenbaum who was also an author and editor. [1] Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1991 David Wong Louie Pangs of LoveWinner [2]
1992 Darryl Pinckney High CottonWinner [3]
1993 Paul Kafka LoveWinner [4]
1994 Martin M. Šimecka The Year of the FrogWinner [5]
1995 Mark Merlis American StudiesWinner [6]
1996 Mark Behr The Smell of Apples Winner [7]
1997 Carolyn Ferrell Don't Erase Me: StoriesWinner [8]
1998 C. S. Godshalk Kalimantaan Winner [9]
1999 Elizabeth Strout Amy and Isabelle Winner [9]
Galaxy Craze By the ShoreFinalist
Nathan Englander For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
2000 Pankaj Mishra The Romantics Winner [9]
2001 Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room Winner [9]
Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu Finalist [10]
2002 Arthur Phillips Prague Winner [9]
2003 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Winner [11]
2004 Lorraine Adams HarborWinner [12]
Peter Duval Rear ViewFinalist [12]
2005 Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation Winner [13]
Kirstin Allio GarnerFinalist [14]
2006 Alice Greenway White Ghost GirlsWinner [15] [16]
Jennifer Gilmore Golden CountryFinalist [17]
Lisa Fugard Skinner’s Drift
2007 Dinaw Mengestu The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Winner [18]
Ellen Litman The Last Chicken in AmericaFinalist [18]
Rebecca Curtis Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money
2008 Zoë Ferraris Finding NoufWinner [19] [20]
Roma Tearne MosquitoFinalist [21]
David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
2009 Philipp Meyer American Rust Winner [22]
Daniyal Mueenuddin In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Finalist [23]
Paul Harding Tinkers
2010 Peter Bognanni The House of TomorrowWinner [24]
Christine Sneed Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made CryFinalist [25]
Michael Sledge The More I Owe You
2011 Ismet Prcic ShardsWinner [26]
Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station Finalist [27]
Eleanor Henderson Ten Thousand Saints
James Wallenstein The Arriviste
2012 Maggie Shipstead Seating ArrangementsWinner [28] [29]
David AbramsFobbitFinalist [30]
2013 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names Winner [28] [29]
Jamie Quatro I Want To Show You MoreFinalist [31]
Jeff JacksonMira Corpora
Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest
Ethan Rutherford The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
2014 Valeria Luiselli with Christina MacSweeney (trans.) Faces in the Crowd Winner [32] [33]
Eimear McBride A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Finalist [34]
Valeria Luiselli Faces in the Crowd
Diane Cook Man V. Nature: Stories
David James Poissant The Heaven of Animals: Stories
John Darnielle Wolf in White Van [34] [35]
2015 Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen Winner [36]
2016 Nathan Hill The Nix Winner [37]
2017 Jenny Zhang Sour HeartWinner [38]
Rachel Khong Goodbye, Vitamin Finalist [39] [40]
Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties
Gabriel Tallent My Absolute Darling [40]
Elif Batuman The Idiot
2018 Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored PeopleWinner [41]
Lisa Halliday Asymmetry Finalist [42]
Katya Apekina The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
R. O. Kwon The Incendiaries
Tommy Orange There There
2019 Namwali Serpell The Old Drift Winner [43] [44]
De’Shawn Charles Winslow In West MillsFinalist [45]
Sarah Elaine Smith Marilou Is Everywhere
Maria Gainza Optic Nerve
Lila Savage Say Say Say
2020 Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Winner [46] [47]
Shruti Swamy A House is a Body: StoriesFinalist [48]
Meng Jin Little Gods
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain
Maisy Card These Ghosts Are Family
2021 Jackie Polzin Brood Winner [49]
Natasha Brown AssemblyFinalist [50]
Thomas Grattan The Recent East
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson My Monticello: Fiction
Benjamín Labatut with Adrian Nathan West (trans.)When We Cease to Understand the World
2022 Aamina Ahmad The Return of Faraz Ali: a novelWinner [51]
Maayan Eitan LoveFinalist [52]
Sidik Fofana Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Oscar Hokeah Calling for a Blanket Dance
Morgan Thomas Manywhere: Stories
2023 Shannon Sanders Company: StoriesWinner [53]
Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A NovelFinalist [54]
Sheena Patel I'm a Fan: A Novel
James Frankie Thomas Idlewild: A Novel
Ghassan Zeineddine Dearborn

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